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     in Prince Edward Island, for which this province does not 
     
     receive credit. 
     
    

    
     11?:aiiscliaarld‘s The Island Province possesses few financial in— 
     
     Institutions stitutions. Its sole local Bank is the Merchants 
     
     Bank of Prince Edward Island, occupying a substantial 
     
     building in Charlottetown. and doing a very successful 
     
     business, It was incorporated in 1871 and has Agencies at 
     
     Summerside, Souris, Montague, Alberton P. E. I., and 
     
     Sydney. C. B. The Sunnnerside Bank, after an existence 
     
    
   
   
    
     of upwards of thirty years, was in 1902 absorbed by the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     “ Numberlcss trout streams furnish sport for the angler." 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bank of New Brunswick, which Institution has now Agen— 
     
     cies at Charlottetown and Snnnnerside. The Union Bank 
     
     of Prince Edward Island, incorporated in 1863, was 
     
     amalgamated with the Bank of Nova Scotia in 1883. and 
     
     is now known as the Charlottetown Agency of that great 
     
     Nova Scotian Institution. There is also a branch at 
     
     Summerside. Another Halifax Bank, the Royal, has 
     
     Agencies at Charlottetown and Sunnnerside. A branch of 
     
     the Dominion Savings Bank is established at Charlottetown, 
     
     in which the amount to the credit of depositors at the 31st 
     
    
   
   
    
     Dec. 1903, was $1,943,166.72. There are Post Office Saving 
     
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